Nottingham screening of Adult Human Female cancelled

terfs not terms, obviously!

Thank you for sharing the link! Enjoyed the Q&A and will watch the film now. Found myself surprisingly and viscerally upset by the pictures upthread of the TRAs with 'all terms are child abusers' placard. I'm a mother and a trained social worker and have never (thanks to my many privileges) faced such hate and vitriol as I know I would from those people for my views thar sex matters, whI have I've so far only tentatively expressed to people irl. It shouldn't be so brave to want to see a film etc (I know that photo was from a different event but the hate remains). What a state of affairs

Now available free from here: adulthumanfemale.info

And Q&A with the filmmakers currently (9.30pm Thu 1 Dec) happening here:

Churches have effectively got no staff. There would be a part time administrator, and the minister will have several churches he/she is responsible for. The rest will be volunteers.

I can understand they were simply not resourced to deal with it.

Equally I can't see quite why they wouldn't simply sit through it to find out.

I guess someone ended up needing to manage the front door situation.

Red fucking mist rising. I've seen little on this site that's made me angrier in recent months, and that's saying much.

Eventbrite seem beyond redemption. They've summarily banned ticket sales for a number of events that I know of, and all have been on a pretty similar basis. Pity they are so convenient to use and keep track of event bookings. Even so, as an occasional event organizer I'll be ensuring I use an alternative form of booking from here on out.

The behaviour of the church is very reminiscent of the library cancellation, also in Nottingham iirc. The council made a, somewhat mealy-mouthed, apology in that instance. I have a tiny amount of sympathy for the Minister, but not much. I suspect they weren't prepared for how nasty tras can be, while simultaneously being the most vulnerable.

Even so, I hope there are repercussions.

I saw this film when it was premiered in London. It's v good and features interviews with women like Jane Clare Jones, Joan Smith, Lucy Masoud, Karen Ingala Smith. It's very factual and straightforward, and I hope it will be widely shared when it is released online this Thursday.

I can only hope the cancellation of it has increased interest in it and made pp more determined to watch it!

This is where you can stream the film online from 1st December at 5pm.

vimeo.com/ondemand/adulthumanfemale

Sorry about that, PaleBlueMoonlight, posted wrong quote! That was for Working itoutasIgo..

It was Sherwood Methodist Church, Devon Drive, Nottingham, PaleBlueMoonlight. Not only did the Minister cancel the screening with only half an hour's notice, but we were then instructed to leave the building at around 2 o'clock, despite having booked the church until 4pm. (Apparently they were surprised and distressed that we wished to proceed with the meeting anyway.) Julie Bindel filled in and spoke by Zoom, we had some Q and A sessions/discussions and we all left at about 3pm.

I'd never heard of this film, until this thread. I'll be watching it when it comes out now, I think any film or book that someone has tried to ban is worth a look at. Have these people never heard of Life of Brian?

I went to the London one and there were no TRAs shouting and screaming. And even if there were I would have defiantly walked in anyway. Not going is exactly what the TRAs want

I bought two tickets through Eventbrite for the London screening.

The person coming with me got freaked out by the fact we needed ID to register when there, and that the venue would only be announced a few hours before the start. I’d spoken to her about how TRAs tried to disrupt such events.

I had a really stressful few days leading up to the event. On the day itself I couldn’t face the thought of being screamed at and intimidated by the inevitable TRAs. I also knew my friend was really anxious about going.

So we didn’t go. I’m still so annoyed and disappointed. I’m sad that I felt not up to handling the intimidation. At least our ticket money went towards the funding of the documentary.

I was unaware of this film but the cancellation has brought it to my attention. I look forward to its release on 1st December and will share it with others. I hope this makes the papers and brings it to an even wider audience. Thank you TRAs. Keep doing what you're doing, it couldn't be more helpful.

Banning a film?

Yeah, that really worked well for "The Life of Brian"!
Totally got ignored after the Christian church and tame councils banned it!

Down with this sort of thing!

I would never have made it to Nottingham to see this film (I live hundreds of miles away), but now I really want to see it when it streams and make up my own mind. Why would protesters go to such lengths to stop women from watching it?

Which events held by trans people for trans people have been picketed by GCs in an attempt to shut them down? Are there any?

Is it only available on Twitter?

Can we be told which church it was please? It might help the Reverend to hear a wider selection of views?

Who are these people who think they are right to stop people watching a film? Will they be burning books next?

Can they really not see themselves?

Here's the Twitter account to follow.

Watch on Thursday if you can.

twitter.com/AHFdoco/status/1595141951451693057?s=20&t=xsVZyzC_DwRgUPwS0IaXfQ

It's not SFW. It will be available online on 1st Dec. Will share details when I have them.

Although it's called something like adult human female, I don't think it's the standing for women one. But presumably, that will face exactly the same resistance.

And of course the censorship is alerting a whole range of other people over the freedom of speech aspect.

Plesse share streaming details when it becomes available...